The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
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George Raveling — the iconic leader who brought Michael Jordan to Nike — shares with Big Think a lifetime of priceless wisdom learned at the crossroads of sports and business.
Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
Historical geniuses used the “creative nap” to give their minds a boost. Apparently, the “hypnagogic state” can help with problem solving.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?
“Time Warp” all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit “Pantheon.”
“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?